[plug] Win4Lin

[Harry McNally]

Hi Christian and Jon

I had Win4Lin demo working ok using RedHat 7.0 but it did require a patched 
kernel that I grabbed from the Linux Pocketbook CD (3rd Edition). The only 
bug I found and chatted to Netravese about was pointing Win4Lin at my Win98 
partition. I had to use the /dev Linux device for the partition rather than 
go through their direct partition access driver.

A quick seach of www.netraverse.com reveals ..
http://www.netraverse.com/support/downloads/kernel_precompiled.php
and
http://www.netraverse.com/downloads/kernel_patch.php
for precompiled and roll your own.

Mandake 8 and Redhat 7.1 are both listed for a precompiled kernel to download.

I'd like any comments on Debian and Win4Lin since this is what I'd like to 
get going. Netraverse helpfully say:

"If you use Debian, Corel Linux, or some other distribution that uses .deb 
and/or dpkg to handle packages, note that Win4Lin Desktop 2.0 does not 
support these distributions." <bleeeah>

Has anyone managed their own patches ?

cu
harrymc

At 06:18 PM 06/18/2001, you wrote:
>i think that Win4Lin 2 is not compatible with the kernel (2.4.x). That is 
>all I know about it, tried it on Redhat 7.1 and it did not work for that 
>very reason.
>
>Christian
>
>At 05:32 PM 18/06/01 +0800, you wrote:
>>Has anyone installed Win4Lin (v2 ??) on Mandrake 8.0?  Also looking for 
>>information on installing a avi player on Mandrake 8.0.
>>Seems there are some issues with the kernel compiling of the plugins for 
>>xmms.
>>Thanks
>>
>>Jon L. Miller, MCNE
>>Director/Sr Systems Consultant
>>MMT Networks Pty Ltd
>>http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au
>>
>>"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure
>>  is trying to please everybody." -Bill Cosby
>